The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-04-23
OPENING OF THE TRIAL.
Arensdorf Answers the Terrible Charge q
the Bar of Justice.

Arensdorf Answers the Terrible Charge at
the Bar of Justice.
Woodbury. County Court House. IN which
the noted trial took place, liz a large and hand
some building, occupying quarter block Oh
one of the most convt nient sites in the city
The basement Ii used as Jail and residence
for the Sheriff's family, the first floor is occu-
pied by roomy ana convenient County Offices
vaults, etc, and the second floor is devoted to
the court, jury and witness rooms. The cell
ing is high and the courtroom will hold
when taxed to its utmost capacity, nearly a
thousand people, yet 1t was crowded through
out almost the whole of the great trial
Court convened on the morning of March %
1887, with Judge Lewis on tho be ch. Hon
M D. OConnel, of Fort Dodge, States Attor-
ney Marsh, Z. b. Hubbard and SpauIdng &
Taylor, of Sioux City, represented the State,
and Judge J. n Weaver 0. c. Tredway, NJ
M Gray, Judge Pendleton, W. G. Clark, s. +.
Lynn and G. ". Kellogg. OF Sioux
appeared for the defense The entire day was
consumed in drawing jury, but the twelve
men answering necessary qualifications were
secured by the following noon Their names
are: John O'Connor, c. c. Bartlett, John
Madden, Thos Crilley. Dennis Murphy, c. G.
fer, E. Webster. John Adair and John D
O'Connell.
In the afternoon the case was fairly opened
by the speech on the part of the state by n. ].
Taylor The defendant. accompanied by his
wife and children, was prominent figure,
and toward him the ewes Of hundreds Of cur
ious spectators were directed. Arensdorf sat
at the end of the long table occupied by g
attorneys with head erect and eyes looking
straight before him. He occupied this posi-
ton during the whole Of the trial, seeming
hardly moved by the most dramatic and thrill
ing incidents brought out in testimony.
Mr.. Argo responded to Mr. Taylor's speech,
promising to prove to the satisfaction of the
jury that John Arensdorf could not have
shot and killed Geo. c. Haddock on the night
of August 3, 1885, as he was not in the vicinity
of the tragedy, and knew nothing about it IN
I'll sometime afterward whether the ey-
idenee,a said Mr. Argo; will satisfy you that
one Harry Leavitt fired the fatal shot on the
night of the Sd of August last, which has
caused SO much sorrow and trouble in this
community / will not at this time undertake
to say, but will say that the evidence will
satisfy you that the defendant was not
concerned in any manner in the
killing of Mr. Haddock that the
very first intimaton he had that any person
on earth accused or suspected that he was in
any manner connected with the death of Mr..
HaddocK was when the officer having the war-
rant for his arrest notified him of the fact
that he had in his possession such instru-
ment and even then the defendant thought
the officer was testing. Knowing that he was
innocent he could not imagine that any per
SOD could be so pase as to make such false
accusation against him. The evidence will
satisfy you that no person accused the de
PENDANT of being in any manner connected
with the killing of Mr.. Haddock until Harry
]. Leavitt, in order to divert attention from
himself. made what people have called con
fession"